Erasmus+ is the new EU programme for Education, Training, Youth, and Sport for 2014-2020.

The Erasmus+ programme aims to boost skills and employability, as well as modernising Education, Training, and Youth work. The seven year programme will have a budget of €14.7 billion; a 40% increase compared to current spending levels, reflecting the EU's commitment to investing in these areas. Erasmus+ will provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain work experience and volunteer abroad.

Erasmus+ will support transnational partnerships among Education, Training, and Youth institutions and organisations to foster cooperation and bridge the worlds of Education and work in order to tackle the skills gaps we are facing in Europe. It will also support national efforts to modernise Education, Training, and Youth systems. In the field of Sport, there will be support for grassroots projects and cross-border challenges such as combating match-fixing, doping, violence and racism.

Erasmus+ brings together seven existing EU programmes in the fields of Education, Training, and Youth; it will for the first time provide support for Sport. As an integrated programme, Erasmus+ offers more opportunities for cooperation across the Education, Training, Youth, and Sport sectors and is easier to access than its predecessors, with simplified funding rules.

Erasmus+ Will Support:

-Opportunities to study, train, gain work experience or volunteer abroad.

-Education, training and youth sector staff to teach or learn abroad.

-The development of digital education and the use of ICTs.

-Language learning.

-Recognition of skills, including those learned outside the formal education system.

-Strategic Partnerships among educational institutions and youth organisations with peers in other countries in both their own sector and other sectors, in order to foster quality improvements and innovation.

-Knowledge Alliances and Sector Skills Alliances, to address skills gaps and foster entrepreneurship by improving curricula and qualifications through cooperation between the worlds of work and education.

-A loan guarantee facility for master’s degree students to finance their studies in another country.

-Teaching and research on European integration.

-Exchanges, cooperation and capacity building in higher education and the youth sector worldwide.

-Initiatives to foster innovation in pedagogy, and progressive policy reform at national level through Prospective Initiatives.

KEY ACTION 2: COOPERATION FOR INNOVATION AND THE EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES
This Key Action supports:
- Strategic Partnerships in the field of education, training and youth;
- Knowledge Alliances;
- Sector Skills Alliances;
- Capacity Building in the field of youth.

KEY ACTION 3: SUPPORT FOR POLICY REFORM
This Key Action supports:
- Structured Dialogue: meetings between young people and policy-makers in the field of youth.